Minimum Vid Card Required for Bioshock!!?!?!?!???! - Page 2

I really need a dualy

EDIT: The conclusions they came to there about 50fps needed for smooth gameplay is pretty subjective, many people can play down to 30fps or lower.

I played with a single core 3700 pretty much maxed out at 1280x960 and was probably averaging in the 30s and it was fine unless in heavy battle, when it dipped below 20. If I had a dual core (as marvelous said, its great for bioshock) it would probably have been better.

Wait until Unreal 3 comes out. Oh man... You would be getting creamed in multiplayer if you are going to play @ 30fps. Bioshock you can get away with 30fps because it's only single player.

I think I'm going to sell my blood until I can afford a 8800gtx before crysis and unreal 3 comes out. Anyone want to buy some blood?

- WinXP 32bit - Microsoft Windows XP Pro (SP2)
- Intel System Driver 8.1.1.1010
- Nvidia nForce 590 SLI 9.35
- Nvidia Forceware 162.18
- ATI Catalyst 7.8

Legion hardware is using older drivers. In dx10 g84 and g80 actually does better than winxp dx9. Couple frames per second better in average while having slight better IQ. Still better than no performance gain. I'm moving to vista.

Geforce 7 can't do AA and HDR at the same time. Radeon x1000 series can however.

yeah i noticed in bioshock that even at 25 fps at places it felth very smooth :S

but yeah, on multiplayers i teld to use lower graphics settings if i dont get over 50fps on max settings on a full server.

so far however, i havnt had to do that as BF2142,COD2,FEAR,UT2004 all work perfectly fine on max settings and on full server....but im sure UT3 will beg to differ

My setup:

Opteron 165 @ 2250
Geforce 7800 GT
2 GB Corsair 3200
Windows Vista Ultimate
550 Watt Rosewill PS

I run Bioshock on Max settings with no slowdown, even in battles with lots going on.

marve how well will this run bioshock....amd opteron 2.2ghz 148...2 gigs of
ram. 500ghd 550wpsu.asus ati x1950pro 256mb..nforce 4 ultra mobo

I ran the Bioshock Demo at medium settings without any hiccups or artifacts at 1024x768 on a 20" LCD.

My specs:

P4 3.2ghz w/HT, 2mb L2 cache, socket 775
Asus P4V800
1 GB PC2700
HIS X1650Pro 512mb DDR2 APG 8x
Onboard Sound
Antec 550W psu
Scepter 20" LCD

With the resolution the OP wants to use I would think the X1950Pro should be able to do everything he wants.

I don't believe AA works with the Radeons in Bioshock yet. A driver workaround has to be done or something.

Your 4xAA setting probably isn't causing much of a performance hit, but it's not providing AA either...

When you guys say max settings what resolution are you playing at? 640x480?

Probably 800x600 or it's not running max settings. Or they don't care if it dips to 10fps. 7800gt is slower than 7900gs. A 7900gs has a hard time @ 1024x768.

in my case 1280x1024, any higher and my monitor goes fuzzy

my processor is 2.2ghz....managed 2 get it 2. 2.4ghz any higher it cant handle suppose i need more cooling...funny thing is i never got that high
till i shoved in the asus x1950pro do you think its the cooler on the card helping....in bioshock what happens if you choose 2 harvest

Buy the eVga x1950pro/xt if you can find one. This way you can "Step Up" to the latest video card (if you like). You only pay for the difference.

haha yeah i'll be on the lookout for that evga x1950....haha


oh yeah and i hear a 2900 pro is coming out to massacre the 8600gts?

or was it the 8800gts 320?

Doesn't sound insane to me at all. The X1950PRO seems to be a tough contender. How much vram do you have? I think the trend I'm seeing is that @higher res. the ATi cards are doing quite well with Bioshock. Of course w/dual core CPU and 2gig. of RAM...

Good article! thanx marvelous211. I think I'm getting better FPS on my sys. though. I know that not all computers are created equally. (NOT bragging, just informing) BUT I have noticed that the Intel CPU/2gig.mem/p5k ...3po something mobo setup gets lower FPS than my FX-57/1gig.mem/A8R32-MVP Deluxe/X1950PRO512meg. setup... when combined w/the same vid card.
HOWEVER the 8600 is DX10, and when OCd I'm sure it rocks. Being future ready, the Nvidia 8600+ series for the same price is a no brain'r. That article showed me that. I can see the potential of the 8600+.
I should mention that I like to OC everything.
BUT... doesn't ATi utilize DX10 correctly(unified shader etc.) whereas Nvidia "MIGHT" w/G92"?" HD2900PRO512=$250+/- ...just a few months longer and it promises to smoke 8650/8700 for breakfast. (2 of these in a crossfire setup... mmmmmmmmmmm)

No, I'm doing the same thing.. 1920*1080 on med-high, w/1950pro (my processors worse too, E2140, although 2Gb worth of ram)... it is playable - very much so.

WHAT???

I'm not going to disagree with you, 'cause I just assumed it was... and you do know what you're talking about. But that's dissapointing to hear... oh well. Was a brilliant game, too bad I've already finished it. When I bother playing again maybe they'll have fixed that.

Anyways, AA or no AA, it works very wellat 1920*1080 on my pro... so to the OP, take that for what its worth...

Whatever your graphs say or not, I think the issue here is is it playable which it is, and its not a slideshow. Those numbers are just numbers. The question was MIN card, and in my experience - which is all I've ever offered - the pro, at the resolution I'm running at - which is higher than the OP by a ways - is very playable. I'll believe my experience over your graphs.

Yea... we've covered that... didn't realise...

Not my graphs.. Tell that to techspot.

i don't really want to deal with rebates.
the problem is that no local computer stores carry the x1950 series anymore.
most only carry nvidia cards.
with that said, better 8600gts or its refresh next month?

You are correct. I was thinking rops instead of TMU.

anybody who is useing a x1950 pro and getting slug with bioshock
i turned off vertical sycn seems 2 run alot better....or would it be my processor 2.2ghz i belive bioshock requires 2.6ghz...anyway i get away with it with vertical sync off....apart from that i run it at max settings
1024.748 res ...the game has never crashed on me yet...touch wood.
just finished the game today...and started playing again today...addictive

Pci express 16x electrical/slot size but only 4x data because it's a using the new p35 chipset without anything exotic like crosslinx added on as it's the gigabyte ga-p35 dq6 motherboard.

your just a hater...haha.